GeoMatrix® Toolkit Overview

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GeoMatrix® Toolkit

Overview

The Tool of Choice for Building Digital Planet Applications

The GeoMatrix® Toolkit, by GeoFusion Inc., is a C++ Software Development Kit (SDK) that provides an object-oriented Application Programmer’s Interface (API) enabling software developers to build high-performance, interactive full-globe Digital Planet applications. The toolkit is a full development environment that includes modular libraries, example applications, and documentation. Draw your own content, models, etc., onto the GeoFusion rendered world of your choice.

Let the World be Your Interface

GeoMatrix® technology provides an increased sense of realism with world-wide datasets through features such as continuous level-of-detail while zooming, terrain morphing between resolution levels, and a multiple globes capability that allows for cloud layers, overlays, multiple planets, etc.

The GeoMatrix® Toolkit provides increased value to existing geospatial-based visualization applications through its:

global reference system

space-to-street-level superior rendering quality

high performance on low cost hardware platforms

global terrain rendering viewable from any 3D perspective

fully interactive control of rendered objects and views

The GeoMatrix® Toolkit reduces time-to-market and R&D costs by providing:

proven technology
a high-level object-oriented API
high performance global rendering services
example applications

The GeoMatrix® System is used to pre-process and then access, in real-time, arbitrary (and typically very large) amounts of geo-specific data: image, terrain, vector, and annotation. The data is pre-processed using a spherical tiling system; tiles are filtered into multiple resolution levels for use in high-quality 3D perspective views of the Earth. These views can then be combined with a variety of overlay graphics, text, models of buildings, planes, etc., and used to produce still images, motion picture sequences, or interactive sessions at a computer workstation.

Sample applications with source code

preprocess source data into the GeoMatrix
high-performancemulti-threaded interactive viewer for imagery, terrain, vector, and annotation data
draw shape files onto the Earth
draw and move 3D models in an interactive Earth scene
draw a star field behind the Earth
fly to a clicked point on the Earth
blend between datasets

Platform Support and Build Environment

PC, UNIX and IA64/Linux. Visual Studio on PC. Makefiles on UNIX and IA64/Linux.

Documentation

Getting Started Manual
Programmer's Manual
Interactive class and API documentation based on processed header files, containing class listings and inheritance diagrams (Microsoft Help on PC; HTML, Man page on UNIX and IA64/Linux)